The rumour might come from bbrv. They blogd about me and samba. I have started with a new port , hopefully usefull this time. I am looking into porting olsens clib2. clib2 gives us all features we need to get samba working. Actualy clib2 was first created with samba in mind. However clib2 is in it's current stage dependent on os4 or m68k amigaos. It uses the interface library calls on os 4 and inline assmbler on m68k to emulate this feature.
This may lead to porting from scratch. Last time I tried I made it with ixemul and I experinced that it did not woked as expected. The only thing that iexemul lacks to be able to build samba is fcntl recordlocking. If someone is skilled enough on unix recordlocking code , it might be possible to update iexemul. However as I said , ixemul probably isn't the right way to go.
So , this leads to implement some unix functions with libnix. Olsen made that with the sas/c runtime, but that was very dependent on the UFB structure in sas/c.
I am looking after other people that are interested to code on a mos samba port,so if you want to join me please give me a message.
Ohh I forgot that my old crapy "port" will soon be on aminet. Someone uploaded it a few days ago but I asked him to remove it. This time a very big disclaimer will be added to the aminet readme file, together with a call for help with samba :)
And one more thing . I haven't got any morphos compatible hw right now so I'm stucked with crosscompilers. However this might soon change :)
[ Edited by micken on 2007/6/26 13:34 ]
MorphOS hangaround :)